Did Jon Jones predict his brutal finish of Daniel Cormier at UFC 214 three years ago?
Two light heavyweights bickered about Cormier’s glaring flaw in 2014 ahead of their first title bout
It was perhaps a fitting touch Jon Jones was sharing the same stage with ‘Mystic Mac’ Conor McGregor when he made a prediction nearly three years ago.
Jones reclaimed the light heavyweight title he relinquished in 2015 after landing a brutal head kick to Daniel Cormier at UFC 214 this past weekend, and it seems the move was foreshadowed a while ago.
Ahead of their first bout which was originally scheduled for UFC 178 in 2014, but would later happen at UFC 182 in January 2015 where Jones won by unanimous decision, the two light heavyweights bickered about Cormier’s fatal flaw during a Los Angeles press conference.
“I do have tendencies, and I know what he is talking about, because they’re glaring,” Cormier said after Jones mentioned an opening he planned on punishing.
“I know that there’s one thing that I do that has gotten me in trouble – if you want to call it trouble – that I’ve been in a fight before, and I haven’t been in much trouble so in the instance that I did get maybe a cut or something, I know it was because of that tendency he is talking about.”